{"id":376,"date":"2019-10-23T12:10:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T16:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/?page_id=376"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:55:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:55:52","slug":"nurturing-dads-book-reviews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/nurturing-dads-book-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurturing Dads: Book Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nurturing Dads: Book Reviews<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/files\/nurturing_dads_cover.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See what others are saying about Nurturing Dads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn this wide-ranging, insightful, and kaleidoscopic journey across the increasingly diverse social landscape of American fatherhood, William Marsiglio and Kevin Roy breathe fresh air into a stale debate. They illumine men\u2019s growing aspirations for close involvement in their children\u2019s lives, even when they face economic disadvantage and physical separation. Nurturing Dads makes it abundantly clear that it is time to jettison narrow definitions of manhood and develop social policies that reach well beyond the limited model of fathers as only breadwinners.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014<strong>KATHLEEN GERSON,<\/strong> professor of sociology and Collegiate Professor of Arts and Science, New York University<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn their ground-breaking new book, Nurturing Dads, William Marsiglio and Kevin Roy take a close and thoughtful look at the \u2018new American father,\u2019 that oft-discussed but seldom understood man. Marsiglio and Roy vividly and engagingly describe the goals, dilemmas, challenges, and rewards faced by contemporary fathers as they grapple with diverse, often contradictory, expectations in a rapidly changing cultural landscape. In the process, Marsiglio and Roy identify sensible, intriguing, and practical policies that could be embraced with equal fervour by both the progressive and conservative interest groups whose ideological disagreements have tended to thwart American policy for the last two decades. Perhaps this book will provide the long-awaited tipping point, moving the country from rhetoric to action!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014<strong>MICHAEL E. LAMB<\/strong>, professor of social and developmental psychology, University of Cambridge, and editor-elect, Psychology, Public Policy, &amp; Law<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFatherhood policy tends to be a \u2018one size fits all\u2019 proposition, working off a deficit model, with most efforts designed to increase men\u2019s participation in family life. William Marsiglio and Kevin Roy have cast the broadest and most extensive net ever, embracing the widest and most diverse set of fathers. By focusing as much on what fathers actually do, as what they don&#8217;t do, but should, they reframe the debates about men\u2019s family participation, and set the terms for a renewed and revitalized set of policy initiatives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014<strong>MICHAEL KIMMEL,<\/strong> Distinguished Professor of Sociology, SUNY Stony Brook<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNurturing Dads outlines some of the most pressing challenges facing fathers today. Written by two leading fathering scholars, it makes timely and important contributions to our understandings of the relationships between social policies and men\u2019s caregiving. This beautifully written book is a must read for academics, policymakers, and community leaders interested in learning how to promote nurturing and engaged fatherhood.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014<strong>ANDREA DOUCET<\/strong>, Canada Research Chair in Gender, Work, and Care and professor of sociology, Brock University<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/nurturing-dads-book-information\/\">Return to book main page<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1075,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-376","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1075"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/376\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/marsig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}